Logan's Run: William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson

NOT a film novelisation...The original story. In the future Era of Youth, there will be too many people and not enough food. So in an orderly and systematic fashion the old ones - those over the age of twenty one - must be got rid of. It was easily done - in the palm of everyone's right hand was embedded a crystal flower. In adults - those over the age of fourteen - the crystal shone crimson. And when the crystal turned black it was time to report to a Sleepshop. Those who didn't report for annihilation - those who tried to escape - were hunted down by the Deep Sleep men - and exterminated. Logan was a DS man - efficient, fast and cruel. But one day the crystal in his hand began to flicker - black, red, black...and Logan discovered he did not want to die!